Summary:
Landers has one listed school, Landers Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 6, with 139 students in Morongo Unified. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 42% in ELA and 34% in math—above district results by 6 and 12 points, respectively, but below state results by 8 and 5 points. The clearest concern is science: proficiency was 18%, 10 points below the district and 18 points below the state.
Landers Elementary stands out most positively in third grade: ELA proficiency was 67%, 23 points above the state, and math was 58%, 11 points above. Results were much weaker in some other grades: fourth-grade ELA was 21%, 24 points below the state, and fifth-grade math was 24%, 13 points below. Sixth-grade ELA was closer to the state, at 45% versus 48%. These differences show that the all-grade figures do not reflect every grade equally.
ELA and math improved year over year, while science moved sharply in the opposite direction. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 38% to 42% and math from 29% to 34%; each subject’s gap with the state narrowed by about 4 points. Science fell from 33% to 18%, while the state rose from 33% to 36%, worsening the school’s position relative to the state by 19 points. SchoolDigger gave the school 2 stars in each of the past three reported years; its percentile was 45 in 2023–2024, 42 in 2024–2025, and 44 in 2025–2026. Other context includes a 20.2 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, when 87% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible, and 24% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, compared with 29% in the district and 18% statewide.
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